"Music director Joseph Colaneri led a sumptuous performance featuring an expanded orchestra. Long passages of the opera carry on with no...

"Joseph Colaneri led the glorious Met Orchestra and superb chorus with, alternately, vigor and tenderness, with a grand feel for...

"Joseph Colaneri, who makes his Juilliard debut, seemed to thoroughly enjoy conducting from the start, exuding Mozart’s overall idea of...

"We were happy to have Joseph Colaneri in the pit, as he led the orchestra quite crisply through Donizetti's score." -Taminophile Read...

"The musically striking and dramatically trenchant qualities of “Vanessa” came through in the Mannes performance, with the conductor...

"Maestro Joseph Colaneri, the current music director of the Glimmerglass Opera Festival, conducts, eliciting especially fine and precise...

"But the treatment of the central love affair was unfussy and sensitive: in the scenes between Mimì and Rodolfo, the work’s unbounded...

"This was an unabashed production of romanticism, and, with the lush and unforgettable melodies of Puccini, conducted beautifully by...

“Mark Adamo’s Little Women is one of the few contemporary operas that have entered the repertory. Even The New York Times’ oft-quoted...

“But in the end it was the opera itself, and conductor Joseph Colaneri’s marvelous feeling for the music, that kept me on to the end and...